IBM Supercomputer Competing on Jeopardy!
IBM has a reputation for building PCs to take on humans; first it was Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov at chess and now ‘Watson’ is set to take on competitors on the US game show Jeopardy! The announcement, by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, doesn’t mention when the challenge will take place, but it does feature several confident-sounding IBM representatives.
“The challenge is to build a system that, unlike systems before it, can rival the human mind’s ability to determine precise answers to natural language questions and to compute accurate confidences in the answers,” said Dr. David Ferrucci, leader of the IBM Watson project team, in a press release. “This confidence processing ability is key. It greatly distinguishes the IBM approach from conventional search, and is critical to implementing useful business applications of question answering.”
I don’t know when the show will be on, but it will be interesting to see how Watson does.
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